As noted on
the Hellgate London Website, Flagship Studios' action/RPG is gold, to be
released in North America on October 31. For those unwilling to wait until
Halloween for the game to get the hell out of the gate, word is a playable
single-player demo is due for widespread release on Friday after debuting on
AOL's GameDaily
tomorrow:

San Francisco, CA (October 16, 2007) – Demons of London beware!
Your reign of terror is officially coming to an end! Electronic Arts, Namco
Bandai Games, and Flagship Studios are excited to announce that Hellgate™:
London has gone to gold master and will be available exclusively for the PC on
October 31st in North America.

"This has been an amazing journey for us and we couldn't be more proud of what
we've accomplished," said Flagship Studios CEO, Bill Roper. "We're anxious to
get Hellgate: London into gamers' hands and we can't wait to play right along
with them."

And for gamers who can't wait until Halloween to get their Demon-slaying on,
Flagship Studios is releasing a singleplayer demo this Friday, October 19th.

The singleplayer demo represents just a small taste of the Hellgate: London
experience. Gamers can choose from two of the game's six character classes: the
Blademaster, a master of swordplay and action-packed melee combat, or the
Marksman, a cool, calculating, long-range specialist.

In the demo, these heroes are able to battle through a small handful of
storyline and side quests as they adventure through the streets and tunnels
around London's Holborn Station.

Hellgate: London combines the depth of role-playing games and the action of
first-person shooter titles, while offering infinite playability with
dynamically generated levels, items, enemies, and events. Whether online or off,
a player creates a heroic character, completes quests, and battles through
innumerable hordes of demons to advance through experience levels and branching
skill paths. A robust, flexible skill and spell system, highly customizable
appearances, and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow players
to create their own unique hero.

I've had this one on preorder for a few months, game is a blast cant wait for it. Though I doubt I'll use the Pay-to-Play option of the game.

The Orange Box commentaries are fantastic. I've finished EP2 twice, first a normal run through, then with commentaries, it makes it worth the money really, though the episode itself is perhaps the most fun I've had in a single-player FPS since HL2 originally came out. Now I've got to run through the commentaries for Portal.

Does TF2 have commentary tracks? I didn't expect it to, being an online game, but that'd be cool.